Too many cooks

22 December 2016 By Gina Chon Follow @GinaChon

The U.S. president-elect chose China critic Peter Navarro to head a trade advisory group. Yet Commerce nominee Wilbur Ross is set to lead on such issues. There’s also the U.S. trade office. The regime risks speaking in multiple voices and confusing nations negotiating with them.

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is forming the White House National Trade Council and chose economics professor Peter Navarro to head the new group, according to a statement released on Dec. 21.

Navarro, who teaches at the University of California, Irvine and has been an adviser to Trump during the campaign, will have the title of assistant to the president and director of trade and industrial policy. He will be charged with developing trade policies that shrink the trade deficit, expand economic growth and help stop jobs from moving overseas.

The National Trade Council will also work with the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. "For the first time, there will be a council within the White House that puts American manufacturing and American workers first," the statement said.

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